chanook*xyz
I have a vista home basic--32bit--with SP1 and all is working just fine. I
did the defragger just to do a sort of a cleanup. Suppose I goofed by doing
it??
I had 23.7gb left on my hard drive. I downloaded the piriform defragger, it
ran and did whatever it does and now I have 6gb less than before the
defragger ran!! Where oh where did 6gb disappear too?? Since I am a total
novice with computers, I wouldn't know the first thing about trying to
recover those 6gb. Can someone give me an explanation, please?? I would
greatly appreciate it. thank you.


From: "Jacek Godorowski" <godorowski@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Any way to obtain details in disk defragmenter?
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:20 AM

That's true.

If you want graphic, safer and much faster use defraggler from
http://www.defraggler.com/

It's free and it's from Piriform (all programs from this company get prizes
and are free).

piriform defragger ?? Why did you not use the one witch comes with Vista

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Peter

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"chanook*xyz*" <nikite@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eftTWLnIJHA.3644@xxxxxx

> chanook*xyz
> I have a vista home basic--32bit--with SP1 and all is working just fine. I
> did the defragger just to do a sort of a cleanup. Suppose I goofed by doing
> it??
> I had 23.7gb left on my hard drive. I downloaded the piriform defragger, it
> ran and did whatever it does and now I have 6gb less than before the
> defragger ran!! Where oh where did 6gb disappear too?? Since I am a total
> novice with computers, I wouldn't know the first thing about trying to
> recover those 6gb. Can someone give me an explanation, please?? I would
> greatly appreciate it. thank you.
>
>
> From: "Jacek Godorowski" <godorowski@xxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Any way to obtain details in disk defragmenter?
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:20 AM
>
> That's true.
>
> If you want graphic, safer and much faster use defraggler from
> http://www.defraggler.com/
>
> It's free and it's from Piriform (all programs from this company get prizes
> and are free).
>
>
>

Originally Posted by chanook*xyz*

chanook*xyz
I have a vista home basic--32bit--with SP1 and all is working just fine. I
did the defragger just to do a sort of a cleanup. Suppose I goofed by doing
it??
I had 23.7gb left on my hard drive. I downloaded the piriform defragger, it
ran and did whatever it does and now I have 6gb less than before the
defragger ran!! Where oh where did 6gb disappear too?? Since I am a total
novice with computers, I wouldn't know the first thing about trying to
recover those 6gb. Can someone give me an explanation, please?? I would
greatly appreciate it. thank you.


From: "Jacek Godorowski" <godorowski@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Any way to obtain details in disk defragmenter?
Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:20 AM

That's true.

If you want graphic, safer and much faster use defraggler from
Defraggler - Defragment your files!

It's free and it's from Piriform (all programs from this company get prizes
and are free).

Hi,

I noticed when using Defraggler to defrag files, it would use a bit of extra space - 100mb or so, if I remember correctly.

When I used it to defrag the drive, lost over 1gb.

You might try using a defragger with a different algorithm and see if it reclaims some of that space - the free Auslogics is a popular one

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag

Please keep us posted of any developments

SIW2

see this and make sure you are going to the MORE OPTIONS to clean up System
Restore and Shadow Copies

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...139d91033.mspx






"chanook*xyz*" <nikite@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eftTWLnIJHA.3644@xxxxxx

> chanook*xyz
> I have a vista home basic--32bit--with SP1 and all is working just fine.
> I did the defragger just to do a sort of a cleanup. Suppose I goofed by
> doing it??
> I had 23.7gb left on my hard drive. I downloaded the piriform defragger,
> it ran and did whatever it does and now I have 6gb less than before the
> defragger ran!! Where oh where did 6gb disappear too?? Since I am a
> total novice with computers, I wouldn't know the first thing about trying
> to recover those 6gb. Can someone give me an explanation, please?? I
> would greatly appreciate it. thank you.
>
>
> From: "Jacek Godorowski" <godorowski@xxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Any way to obtain details in disk defragmenter?
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:20 AM
>
> That's true.
>
> If you want graphic, safer and much faster use defraggler from
> http://www.defraggler.com/
>
> It's free and it's from Piriform (all programs from this company get
> prizes
> and are free).
>
>
>

That "defraggler" is a Beta, so it might have its problems

There's a help forum on that software vendor's web site:
http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showforum=19



"chanook*xyz*" <nikite@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eftTWLnIJHA.3644@xxxxxx

> chanook*xyz
> I have a vista home basic--32bit--with SP1 and all is working just fine.
> I did the defragger just to do a sort of a cleanup. Suppose I goofed by
> doing it??
> I had 23.7gb left on my hard drive. I downloaded the piriform defragger,
> it ran and did whatever it does and now I have 6gb less than before the
> defragger ran!! Where oh where did 6gb disappear too?? Since I am a
> total novice with computers, I wouldn't know the first thing about trying
> to recover those 6gb. Can someone give me an explanation, please?? I
> would greatly appreciate it. thank you.
>
>
> From: "Jacek Godorowski" <godorowski@xxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Any way to obtain details in disk defragmenter?
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:20 AM
>
> That's true.
>
> If you want graphic, safer and much faster use defraggler from
> http://www.defraggler.com/
>
> It's free and it's from Piriform (all programs from this company get
> prizes
> and are free).
>
>
>